Lord Voldemort wrote:
On 6/13/06, Michael R. Irwin michael_irwin@verizon.net wrote:
Kernigh wrote:
[[en:User:Zephram Stark]] was recently blocked:
- 13:18, 8 May 2006 Jimbo Wales blocked "Zephram Stark (contribs)" with an
expiry time of infinite (trolling, banned user on en.wikipedia)
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It appears that the only reason for this block concerns trouble on en.wikipedia, and of such trouble I have no knowledge. (Maybe someone could describe to me what happened?)
I think that this user should be unblocked immediately or the block be shortened to 1 week or less. What does everyone think? -- [[en:User:Kernigh]] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Kernigh
I suppose this depends on whether one views the wikis as subprojects of one big project and community hosted by Wikimedia or as separate projects.
Personally I think the individual projects have separate communities and identies, so I agree with you. If this user has caused no problems on wikibooks then this is a case of unnecessary persecution probably intensifying problems in the future.
However, there are a large number of people who have chimed in that Wikiversity should be defined around the other existing projects so there is absolutely no duplication. In this view we essentially have a single project. So once a handle or puppet is banned in one place perhaps the ban should be in force everywhere else.
Regards, lazyquasar
Where did Kernigh write this? Zephram Stark will not be unblocked in the near future. --LV
I would be curious over what sort of problems this user has made on Wikibooks. While he has done some things that I think approach the limits of "original research", he has not been a vandal on Wikibooks nor has caused any other signficant problems. Certainly being banned on Wikipedia should not be cause to be banned on Wikibooks by itself. This is a disturbing development to me in this sense. Show me damage that this user has done on Wikibooks, including perhaps the alleged trolling, and I might support a ban. In addition, try to demonstrate (even though I think it is likely) that this is even the same user on Wikibooks that it is on Wikipedia.